Regional Events - February to May 2017 National Conference - June 15 to 17, 2017 Website: www.IndigenousRadio.ca

With the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s Native Broadcasting Policy (CRTC 1990-89) review proposed to take place next year (CRTC Three Year Plan 2016-2019), The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence will kick-start discussions in the practitioner, policy and academic worlds. From February to May 2017,

The November 2 videoconference given by Edward Snowden received worldwide press coverage, with some outlets devoting multiple stories to the event, both pre- and post-event. The conference took place during ongoing revelations that numerous Quebec investigative journalists had been surveilled for years by the Montreal Police.

Snowden's comments on these developments fuel the dialogue and debate on the right to privacy, journalistic integrity and the surveillance state.

In the shadow of anthropogenic climate change, questions and contests over ecological responsibility, environmental justice and the transformation of unsustainable economies have moved to the centre of cultural, political and intellectual attention globally. Media are deeply implicated in these questions, and this implication has a long history, extending back at least to the role of communication and transportation media in the establishment, representation and operation of imperial and colonial extractive economies and networks.